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From: rone@bofh.noc.best.net (Ron Echeverri)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Confused about releases and ports
Date: 19 Jun 1997 13:18:44 -0700
Organization: fidgety systems administrators gmbh
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In article <33a847d0.1747214@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
John Kelly <mouth@ibm.net> wrote:
>I installed 2.2.1 from CD, then CVSuped RELENG_2_2 and recompiled my
>kernel. It now boots up as "2.2-STABLE" -- does that mean I have the
>latest kernel in the 2.2 family?
Not unless you recompiled your kernel with the latest sources you cvsuped.
>And when I CVSuped ports, I tried the same RELENG_2_2 tag and it
>deleted all my ports and then stopped, so I concluded that was not a
>valid release tag, and tried it again with =. and that worked but now
>I'm not sure what level of ports I have.
Hmm, well, this is what i have in my cvsupfile to get ports:
ports-all release=cvs tag=.
I'd presume that you have the latest versions of the ports.
rone
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